#chronically late

Me (chronically late): Yeah... im just gonna try to get there early so that im on time when im late!

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i’m a bit late telling you all about it, but yesterday I released my first film as a writer and director. it’s been a lot of hard work and a lot of people dealing with me running around like a maniac with a million ideas a minute, but i’m really proud of the final product. it’s a short film that you can stream on my instagram, and i’d be super honored if you checked it out.

What happened? I was 20 minutes late to a doctor’s appointment, and almost had to reschedule How bad is it? Pretty bad? Could have been worse though? Maybe a 5. What led up to this situation? I knew when I had to leave and worked in some buffer time, but I got caught up in reading some really interesting blog posts and kept telling myself that I didn’t *really* have to leave just yet. When I left it was about 10 minutes past the time I thought I should leave without the buffer time, and then the bus took longer than usual. How can I make things right or mitigate the damage? I can own up to my mistake at the reception desk and be polite. How can I prevent this from happening again: Maybe I can set an alarm for when I should leave (with buffer time) and make it so I have to stand up to turn off the alarm. Actually with this particular example, I realized that me running late all the time was tied in with my tendency to get lost in thought a lot. And I like doing that!  I wouldn’t want to be the kind of person who never gets lost in thought. And I’d made a LOT of effort to try to be more punctual with little success. So the main thing I got out of it was...I can’t consistently prevent this from happening again. But I can schedule appointments late in the day as a harm-mitigation thing, so if I’m running late (which I do more than most people) there’s a relatively high chance that the doctor will be running late too, and if the doctor isn’t running late at least I’ve inconvenienced relatively few patients coming after me. I’m making another attempt to be on time more often, but this time with the help of actual books on the subject rather than trying to figure it all out on my own. And I’m trying to focus more on when things go *right*, rather than when things go *wrong*. It’s...kind of humbling, because I’ve been paying attention to just how often I run late on the little unimportant things (always), but the thing where I “reward” myself for being early does seem to be making some headway, so we’ll see.